Tag: Israel-Gaza

Israel

What the Mass Media Needs to Cover Re: Israel/Gaza Conflict – CounterPunch.org

10 Questions

Why is Congress preparing to appropriate over $14 billion to Israel in military and other aid without any public hearings and without any demonstrated fiscal need by Israel, a prosperous economic, technological and military superpower with a social safety net superior to that of the U.S.? USDA just reported over 44 million Americans struggled with hunger in 2022. This, in the midst of a childcare crisis. Should U.S. taxpayers be expected to pay for Netanyahu’s colossal intelligence/military collapse?

Source: What the Mass Media Needs to Cover Re: Israel/Gaza Conflict – CounterPunch.org

Media

Quality over quantity: Reliable media sources on the Israel-Gaza war

The West Bank is simply forgotten but extremely active.

Dr Shamekh Abu Rub was executed today while standing with his brother at the entrance of their home in Jenin. An armored Israeli military vehicle fired directly at them with the intent of executing them. His brother remains in a very critical condition. Their father, Kamal, is Jenin’s deputy governor. He is a friend.

Another heartless crime that brings the number of murdered Palestinians in the West Bank since October to over 230.

IT IS POSSIBLE to find out what is happening and why, in Gaza, to a certain extent, despite the din of arguments and raving bilge on social media. 

Source: Quality over quantity: Reliable media sources on the Israel-Gaza war

Media

“Read With Extreme Caution”: A Journalist’s Guide to Israel-Palestine Media Literacy – Mother Jones

Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others “dying.” Each account of events in Israel and Palestine seems to rely on different facts. What’s clear is that misinformation, hate speech, and factual distortions are running rampant.

There are no consequences.

Source: “Read With Extreme Caution”: A Journalist’s Guide to Israel-Palestine Media Literacy – Mother Jones

Putin

Israel-Gaza Conflict: An Opportunity for Putin in Ukraine while the World is Distracted

By Robert M. Dover, University of Hull | – Time is an ally of Russia in the Ukrainian conflict. Russia needs to reduce its rate of battlefield deaths and remain militarily active in Ukraine for as long as possible. A great aid to Vladimir Putin would be a disruption in the supply of weapons to Kyiv, and a diminishing commitment from European and US governments to support the war or to provide military equipment. A rival crisis to distract Ukraine’s allies, in the form of war in the Middle East, could provide just this.

Source: Israel-Gaza Conflict: An Opportunity for Putin in Ukraine while the World is Distracted